HeyJaredBrian Narhi
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The boisterous early elections in St. Catharines (opens the original)
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Brian Narhi is a local historian, member of the Historical Society of St. Catharines and recipient of the Lieutenant-Governorâs Heritage Award for Lifetime Achievement. The history of municipal elections in Ontario predates the creation of the province by nearly 80 years and is closely connected to the establishment of an early court and the first township meetings. Once settlement started in this area, the government at Quebec deemed it necessary to introduce a court in 1787 that was known as
Seal on the lam: When Jeff escaped from Marineland and was believed to have gone over the Horseshoe Falls (opens the original)
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It has often been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This couldnât have been truer than an event that happened in the spring of 1963. Following the escape of Jocko the sea lion at the Prudhomme Garden Centre zoo, featured in my last column, there was a similar occurrence that unfolded at Marineland in Niagara Falls. Marineland, then known as âMarine Wonderland and Animal Farm,â opened in the summer of 1961. Established by John )Ivan) Holer (1935-2018), a native of Slove
Jocko the playful sea lion's daring escape from Niagara (opens the original)
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Many of us sat spellbound in 1994 watching the O.J. Simpson chase in Los Angeles. But how many know about, or remember, a local celebrity fugitive from the early 1960s? Jocko was a playful, 18-month-old, 27-kilogram sea lion, 106 centimetres long and one of the star attractions at the Prudhomme Garden Centre zoo. Valued at $500, he had been imported from California in May 1962 along with his mate Doll (Dolly). Prudhommeâs started in 1940 as a gas station and nursery owned by brothers John and
St. Catharines a key staging ground during the Fenian raids (opens the original)
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During spring and summer 1866, Niagara district was in a state of high alert. An anticipated Fenian invasion marked the first armed incursion on Canadian soil since the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837-38. Local newspapers published numerous reports on Fenian activities. But who were they? The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish republican organization based in the United States, recruiting Union army Civil War veterans. It aimed to pressure the British government to withdraw from Ireland by staging a
Disputed land grant in St. Catharines tied up the courts for decades (opens the original)
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Duncan Murray was among the earliest settlers on Twelve Mile Creek in Grantham Township. Murray joined the 84th Regiment or Royal Highland Emigrants at New York during the American Revolution. He served in the 1st Battalion as quarter master (1781) and as lieutenant. The men of the 1st Battalion primarily settled in Eastern Ontario. Murray, however, settled at Niagara sometime in 1784 or 1785 with his family and two âservants.â He was appointed to a magistracy and oversaw distribution of rat
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